colonial

Definitions

1. A person from a country that is or was controlled by another.
2. Of or pertaining to a colony
3. A house that is built in a style reminiscent of the period of the colonization of New England.
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4. Of or pertaining to a period when a country or territory was a colony
5. Of or pertaining to the ideals of colonialism
6. Of or relating to the original Thirteen Colonies of the USA
7. Of or relating to the style of architecture prevalent at about the time of the Revolution

Equivalents

Examples

“None of them are, so to speak⟳, idle men. Many of them are emigrants, not of the soil born and bred colonials.”

“The rest⟳ of us had tea and finger sandwiches with members of the royal household, which was very elegant but hard on some of us ill-schooled colonials.”

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